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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Administration Caught In Another BP Oil Spill Lie

A group of scientists says as much as 79 percent of BP Plc’s leaked oil remains in the Gulf of Mexico, challenging an Obama administration assessment that the crude is largely gone or rapidly disappearing. Most of the oil that leaked from BP’s Macondo well from April 20 to July 15 is still beneath the water’s surface, scientists including Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia in Athens, concluded in a memo made public yesterday. The researchers say they drew upon the U.S. government’s study while reaching different conclusions. The Obama administration’s Aug. 4 report indicated that almost three-fourths of the crude that leaked has disappeared or soon will be eaten by bacteria. Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said at least half of the oil released is now “completely gone.” More here..

small particles present in the shrimps may not harm them. but if u eat a lot of shrimps u might get sick. just don't eat too much Gulf sea food. u might accumulate large quantity of those harmful oil and chemical.

Americas consumerist car culture and its oil industry waste and ecological desruction of the human living environment for short term profit has a lot to answer for as the ‘hidden” ecological costs mount.for future generations throughout the world.

The Government Lies to the American People About the Safety of Gulf Seafood.→ Washington’s BlogThe Centers of Disease Control (CDC) just announced:For the seafood to pose a health risk, the food would have to be heavily contaminated with oil, and would therefore have a strong odor and taste of oil.That is patently untrue.As I pointed out in June:Crude oil contains such powerful cancer-causing chemicals benzene, toluene, heavy metals and arsenic.

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As Bloomberg notes:

“Oil is a complex mixture containing substances like benzene, heavy metals, arsenic, and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons -- all known to cause human health problems such as cancer, birth defects or miscarriages,” said Kenneth Olden, founding dean of New York’s CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, who is monitoring a panel on possible delayed effects.